‘63 we lost the South Our sacred cow, our noble cause Our heritage was ripped away, Our way of life was sacrificed To Lincoln's law, a wicked wedge A power play for Blue and Gray Years and years of grinding toil In blood and soil, our precious lives For God and kin, we gave our all We scrimped and saved and taught our slaves To tow the line, sink or swim Run or crawl, to rise or fall Now we've been scammed And I'll be damned If we'll allow a colored man To walk in here and take command Of any inch of southern land Our home, our space Take away the colored race We will never be replaced All we want is freedom We want freedom of our own North is not our beacon We can find our way alone Kiss and call it even Leave and we can let it go away then We can all forget the crying And the million dead or dying Talk the owners into hiring Bring the buyers back to buying Get suppliers re-supplying Market engines up and firing Nothing sounds as gratifying ‘69 we'd seen enough To call their bluff, the growing mass Of former slaves had gained control Through legal fights and voting rights New laws were passed, they came in waves In fits and throes like body blows Now we aim to make it clear The law down here may seem insane Might hunt you down and hang you high Remember jury and the judge Are all the same for Black and Brown Wrong or right, we're always White Now we've been scammed And I'll be damned If we'll allow a colored man To walk in here and take command Of any inch of southern land Our home, our space Take away the colored race We will never be replaced